Cemetery Name

Miami Valley Memory Gardens

Township

Status

First Known Burial

General Condition

Tombstone Condition

OGS Cemetery #

Location:

NE Corner Lytle-Five Points Rd & SR 48 NE of Springboro
Address: 1639 E. Lytle-Five Points Road, Centerville, OH 45458
Phone # : 937-885-7779

Coordinates:

STR/ VMD

Property Account:

Parcel ID:

Map:

• Miami Valley Memory Gardens Home Page
• USGS GNIS - Miami Valley Memorial Garden; FID #1043257 at coordinates 39°33'47"N 84° 9'29"W
• Google Map at coordinates 39°33'47"N 84° 9'29"W
• Warren County Auditor for
  Property Account # 0122556, Parcel ID 05262000061 (38.775 acres)
  Property Account # 0111856, Parcel ID 05262000100 (35 acres)
  Property Account #0141261, parcel ID 05262000062 (14 acres)
• Aerial Image of the cemetery location from Bing Maps
• Range 5 Township 3 Section 26 from Warner's 1867 Warren County Ohio Wall Map

Cemetery History

Miami Valley Memory Gardens is a large commercial cemetery owned and operated by Service Corp International as part of their Dignity Memorial Provider Network. The cemetery was established in 1956 by Ellis Back on a 92 acre parcel of land. As of December, 2010, we know of 13,871 burials in the cemetery including 1,109 who are known to be veterans.
 

Cemetery Transcriptions

• D.A.R. Turtlecreek Chapter & Warren County Historical Society (available at the Historical Society Library)
  • none
• Warren County Genealogical Society
  • Warren County Cemetery Records Volume 12 has a number of burials listed in the Miami Valley Memory Gardens that were extracted from obituaries published between 1985 & 2000 See Name Index
  • Our thanks to the following who contributed photographs and transcriptions for the Miami Valley Memory Gardens Virtual Cemetery. Their photographs will be added to this site and the Warren County Genealogical Society will eventually use the results of their efforts to publish a new Cemetery Book
    • The Apostles, Cross and Everlasting Life sections were photographed by the Aric Harrison Eagle Scout Project.
    • The Prayer and Last Supper Sections were photographed by the Philip Stanfield Eagle Scout Project.
    • The Doris Kading family photographed nearly all of the Devotion section. 
    • The Dana Palmer family photographed the rest of the cemetery (Christus upper & lower, Babyland, Family Heritage, Chapel Maus 1, Chapel Maus 2, Maus 1, Maus 2, and Estates) and re-took photos that were blurry or were new burials since the Eagle projects were complete in all other sections (Prayer, Last Supper, Everlasting Life, Cross, and Apostles). Andy, Megan and Joseph Palmer helped with double checking all the names and cleaning off the stones for Prayer, Last Supper, Everlasting Life, Cross and Apostles.
• Other Known Transcriptions
  • none known of

Gravestone Images

Gravestone photos for the Warren County, Ohio Virtual Cemetery Project are being posted to the Warren County OHGenWeb Project
To view images ===> Miami Valley Memory Gardens
To submit images ==> email to Arne H. Trelvik at atrelvik@gmail.com [please send high resolution digital images if available]